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In a defense of his troubled tenure as chief of the United Nations Special Commission responsible for disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, Richard Butler has accused Secretary General Kofi Annan of trying to destroy the commission because it was "too independent." Butler, who resigned as chairman of the commission on July 1, also savagely criticized virtually everyone else associated with the protracted effort to disarm Iraq of unconventional weapons. The exception is the Clinton administration, which, he said, contrary to allegations by former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, was largely steadfast and alone in its efforts to "hold Saddam (Hussein)